Combined camera-support and posing device.



vG. T'. RIDINGS. GOMBINE GMERA'SUPPORT AND POSING DEVICE;

A PPLIOATIQN FILED DBG. 27, 1912.

GEORGE T. amines', or GIBias, MISSOURI. l

COMBINED CAMERA-SUPPORT ANI) OSIN'G IEVICE.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Appiication mea December 27,1912. seriaii'vo; 738,872.

To all whom t may concern.' v

Be it known` that I, GEORGE T.' RTDINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gibbs, in the county of Adair and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Camera-Supports, and Posing Devices, of which the following.

nisza. specification.

V*The invention relates to-photography and A fmore particularly to a device for support-` lng. f1 camera and a posing medium, whereby a person desiring to have his portrait or photograph can adjust himself to the particular pose he desires to have reproduced on the finished portrait.

The invention embodies, among other features, a support adapted to carry a camera with a refiecting medium arranged on the support, with the lens carrier of the camera projecting therethrough so that a person or object stationed in front of the camera will b e reflected in the reflecting medium in order that thel person can readily adjust himself to the pose he desires. i

The invention further embodies a structure whereby the person who is posing himself for the picture can operate the shutter mechanism of the camera to obtain a picture of himself in the pose he desires.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this speciication, in which similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my device in applied position; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional 'view of the device; and Fig is a horizontal sectional view showing the 'manner of supporting the reiiecting medium.

Referring more particularly to the views,

` I disclose a'base 10 having aplurality of 'ind Aagainst which the lower end of the mirror 14 abuts in order to retain the mirrorV in position between the uprights 11.

,Inclined braces 16 extend from the rear end of t'he base 10 'to a point midway between the uprights 11 and are securedthereto, and

a supporting board 17 reposes on the upper ends of the braces 1G and is secured to the rear faces of the uprights 11, the said supporting board extending horizontally to the uprights to support the front end of an auxiliary base 18 having the rear end supported by suitable inclined braces 19 secured to the braces 16, thus retaining the auxiliary base 18 in horizontal position in-the rear of the mirror 14. Blocks 2O provided with inclined faces 2l are supported on the auxiliarybase 18 vand a camera 22 is mounted 1n an inclined position on thepsaid blocks and the .said auxiliary base as shown, with patented June 9, 1914.

the usual lens tube 23 ofthecamera 22 projecting through anopening 24 formed in substantially the center of the mirror 14. A tube 25 provided with the usual bulb 26 has connectiongwith the shutter operating mechanism of the camera whereby, when the bulb is pressed, the shutter mechanism will be operated in the usual manner, this being the ordinary apparatus generally employed in operating a camera, as will be readily understood. Now referring to Fig.

1 it will be seen that when a person stations himself in frontv of the mirror 14C he can readily pose himself and assume the position that he desires to be reproduced on the finished picture and when this has been accompiished he can, by pressing the bulb 26, operate the shutter mechanism of the camera and photograph himself. It

will be understood, however, that the party l stationed in front'of the camera can also pose himself without necessarily photographing himself, and that the actual photographing of the party in front of the camera can be performed by the usual operator in charge of the camera.

My device is particularly adaptable for use'.in photograph galleries and the like where persons desiring to have their photographs taken, can pose themselves i'n front of the cameraa-nd readily adjust themselves to a natural position, lthus greatly aiding the photographer in obtaining an eflicient photograph of the party desiring the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim: y

In a supporting and posing device for ca me'ras, the combination with a base, of a mirror supported on the base and provided l with an opening through which the objective of the camera is adapted to pass, an auxiliary base, a cross piece on the irst lll mentioned base and supporting the inner end offthe auxiliary base, braces projecting from the base and'conneting with the outer ends of the auxiliary base, whereby the auxiliary base will be supported laterally to the first mentioned base and in the rear of the said mirror, and blocks having inclined faces, said blocks being slidably adjustable on -the said auxiliary base and adapted to sup ort the rear end of the camera having 10 its ont end reposing on the said auxiliary ase. 1

In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence "of two Witnesses.

GEORGE T. RIDINGS. Witnesses:

' V. J. ToMPmNs, `W. H. YOUNG. 

